The 12th Andover (West) Scout Group
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COVID-19 Latest News (25/05/2022): After the latest Government briefing last week removed all legal restrictions regarding the COVID virus we continue to follow the Scout Association guidelines for how we run our group. We have moved to the GREEN readiness level. This means that we are pretty much back to how we did scouting before the pandemic with a few small exceptions.
We continue to follow a risk assessment that we created and to ensure that all people are safe whilst onsite and understand the rules that we are following.
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We are based in the Andover District in North Hampshire. Our Group meet at the Scout Hut on West Portway in Andover (see contact for more details).
Our group consists of Beaver, Cub & Scout sections and in addition, one of the District Explorer units also meets at our hut as well as a Networks section.
We have a great hut with lots of facilities, a large car park and a wonderfully large outside space that is fully and safely enclosed, allowing us to hold camps and many events within our own grounds.
The aim of the Scout Association is to promote the development of young people and help them achieve their full physical, intellectual, social and spiritual potentials as individual, as responsible citizens and as members of their local, national and international communities.
This website is continuously being added to so please browse it regularly to find new information on the 12th Andover (West) Scout Group.
Latest News
Beavers Receive a Letter from The Queen
The 12th Andover (West) Beavers have received a very exciting letter! In March, the Beavers took part in a district activity day. One of the activities that day was to make a card for the Queen to celebrate her jubilee. The cards all looked amazing and...
Chris (Fox) is invested into the 12th
Yesterday (May 24th) at Beavers, Chris was officially invested into the 12th as our newest uniformed leader by our District Commissioner, Stella Callow and our GSL, Seán (Bagheera). You may well already know Chris as he has been a leader in all but name for the past...
Improvements at the HQ completed
It has been a very busy week at 12th HQ and as you will see from the photos below we have had all sorts of improvements made to the grounds. We are lucky enough to have a member of our Exec committee (James) with connections in the building industry and he spoke with...
Beaver Pirate Camp
On Saturday 20th November the Beavers held their Autumn (day) pirate camp. The day was very busy and lots of badge work was completed. The Beavers got to design and build their own boat and then got to test them to see if they would float. They also...
David Smith MBE visits the Cubs
Our Cubs were very lucky recently and they had a visit from David Smith who is an amazing paralympian Boccia player. Boccia is a precision ball sport a little like bowls or petanque and David is the joint most successful Boccia player in British history. David has won...
District Beavers 35th Birthday Bash
This year marks the 35th anniversary of Beavers launching in the UK and so to celebrate this special milestone the Beavers from Andover all got together as a district to have a party. Over 70 Beavers from the 1st, 4th, 9th, 11th, 12th, 14th 22nd and 23rd groups...